Grandparent Family Connections

Grandparent Family Connections (GFC) was initiated with a grant award from the United States Department of Health and Human Services Children’s Bureau to serve grandparent headed households (2003-2008). Since that time, a focus on serving grandparent headed households has continued.

This includes

providing services to individual families,

conducting grandparent groups,

providing education and advocacy related to issues of grandparent headed households, and

promoting the development of policy and services in Maryland on behalf of these families.

Frederick H. Strieder, PhD, LCSW-CProgram Director, Principal Investigator for Family ConnectionsDirector, Family Connections, Grandparent Family Connections, and Trauma Adapted Family ConnectionsClinical Associate Professor, University of Maryland School of Social Work410-706-5479 / fstrieder@ssw.umaryland.edu